Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 1, 2025
"The Basutos brought me here." "The Watcher-by-Night is pleased to say that I lie, so doubtless I do lie," she answered, her fixed smile deepening a little. Then she folded her arms across her breast and remained silent. "You are a messenger, O seer of pictures in the dust and bearer of the cup of dreams," I said with sarcasm.
Unhappily, they were not allowed a choice; the Boers drove them back "to die with the English." Unlike the Basutos, the Fingo tribe was not physically or geographically in a position to make reprisals for such indignities.
"In 1871 Basutoland was annexed to the Crown Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, without the Basutos having been consulted. "In 1872 the Crown Colony became a colony with a responsible Government, and the Basutos were placed virtually under another power.
Upon inquiry, I found that a battle had been lately fought between the Ottawas and the Kickapoos, and that the object of all this noise was to prevent the ghosts of the departed combatants from entering the village." Among the Basutos "ablution is specially performed on return from battle.
And, in the case under consideration, the encroachments lead at once to less land being put under the plow than is subjected to the native hoe, for it is a fact that the Basutos and Zulus, or Caffres of Natal, cultivate largely, and undersell our farmers wherever they have a fair field and no favor.
The four horses negotiated it very well and the Cape cart, being splendidly built, took no harm. At the top I looked back and saw that the Basutos were following us. "Flog the horses!" I cried to Anscombe, and off we went at a hand gallop along the native track, the cart swaying and bumping upon the rough veld. The sun was setting now, in half an hour it would be quite dark.
So I slipped off again over its tail and we went on as before. Meanwhile the Basutos, very active fellows, were coming up. Anscombe kicked the horse with his sound heel and I thumped it with my fist, thereby persuading it to a hand gallop.
The Basutos asked for representation in the Colonial Parliament, which was refused, and to my mind here was the mistake committed which led to these troubles. "Then came constant disputes, the Disarmament Act, the Basuto War, and present state of affairs. "From this chronology there are four points that stand out in relief:
Baas," he answered, "the Basutos have got them. We heard from an old black woman that Sekukuni had an impi out, so we waited on the top of that hill about an hour's ride away to see if it was true. Then suddenly the doctor Baas appeared riding, and I ran out and asked him if it were safe to go on. He knew me again and answered
He advocated giving them a semi-independent position, with power to manage their own affairs, and to administer justice without the intervention of foreign magistrates, some of whom, in Gordon's opinion, were very corrupt. Those who have studied the affairs of South Africa, and the history of Christian missions there, will not need to be told what an interesting people the Basutos are.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking